Statistics speak. Most adults do not meet their daily fiber requirements, which is 25-35 grams per day, depending on how much you weigh and if you are male or female. That's why we see commercials for Beneful, and Jamie Lee's yogurt for regularity and more and more ads that distastefully introduce us to everyone's personal bowel issues.However, with Fiber Gummies, I think we have reached a new nutritional low in our culture. These are aimed at kids ages 2-11 to promote regularity. Although, their website claims this "is not a laxative." They say the fiber in three gummies is equal to one cup of corn. Well, what happened to eating corn? or apples? or bread? or cereal that is not saturated in sugars? These are actual foods. Do we really need to start our toddlers on vitamins and supplements at such an early age?
It's worth noting that I do not have kids and of course every childless adult is a great parent. (Yes, that was sarcasm.) But seriously, at least try masking the benefits of real food in home-cooked dishes. A great book is Deceptively Delicious where cauliflower is pureed into macaroni and cheese and kid-enticing brownies are packed with fiber from black beans.
Pushing pills, however rubbery and flexible they are, onto our children cannot be the answer.
2 comments:
Good entry, I completely agree!
Ed
I agree too! (another perfect childless parent here). If it's equal to a cup of corn - a cup of corn is EASY - buy it frozen! Was I weird because I ate vegetables as a kid? Sure my mom had to douse broccoli and cauliflower in cheese that I don't need now - I eat vegetables naked (oh dear the *vegetables* are in the nude not me..) but I mean...
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